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The entire manual workforce at Rolls Royce’s Patchway site in Bristol walked out this morning (Thursday, 21 July) following the sacking of their deputy plant convenor, Jerry Hicks.

Tony Blair would have us believe that the horrific bombings perpetrated against the people of London last week had nothing to do with the foreign policy of his government post 9/11.

Healthcare has become a huge global industry with an annual turnover in excess of $3 trillion and a workforce upwards of 35 million worldwide, plus millions more in linked services and occupations.

What is life like in Afghanistan?

From across Britain and from Europe they came in their hundreds and then their thousands to the Marxism 2005 event.

I’m a fan of horror — someone who has always loved monsters. So I’m now trying to make some sort of political sense of why I was so interested in them.

Ae Fond KissDirected by Ken Loach

Womad29-31 JulyReading

Gordon Brown is feted to the skies for his supposedly adroit management of the British economy. Even his most hardened critics—like Tony Blair—grit their teeth and claim Brown is the "most successful chancellor for 100 years".

More than 300,000 workers protested in towns and cities across Australia recently against proposed anti-union laws.

Around 200,000 South African local government workers struck for a day on Tuesday over pay.

At least 22 miners died and 60 others were missing after a gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northwest China’s Xinjiang region on Monday.